Architectural space in eighteenth-century Europe : constructing identities and interiors / edited by Denise Amy Baxter, Meredith Martin.

Title & Author:

Architectural space in eighteenth-century Europe : constructing identities and interiors / edited by Denise Amy Baxter, Meredith Martin.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 267 pages : illustrations, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: constructing space and identity in the eighteenth-century interior / Denise Amy Baxter -- Section one: crossing boundaries, making space -- The ascendancy of the interior in eighteenth-century French archictectural theory / Meredith Martin -- 'Tr̀̀̀̀̀ès belle, agréable, et bien meublée': the electoral palace at Saint-Cloud in the early eighteenth century / Max Tillmann -- In the right place at the right time: political propaganda in the archiepiscopal palace of Würzburg / Csongor Kis -- Getting plastered: ornamentation, iconography, and the 'desparate faction' / Katherine R.P. Clark -- Section two : the interior as masquerade -- Salon as stage: actress/courtesans and their homes in late eighteenth-century Paris / Katherine Norberg -- Fashioning bluestocking conversation : Elizabeth Montagu's Chinese room / Stacey Sloboda -- The space of the mask : from stage to Ridotto / Marc J. Neveu -- Section three : the politics of display -- Improving public taste in the private interior : gentlemen's galleries in post-Napoleonic London / Anne Nellis Richter -- A nation of statues : museums and identity in eighteenth-century Rome / Jeffrey Collins -- (Re)constructing an eighteenth-century interior : the value of interiority on display / Daniel Brewer.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

This work explores how a diverse, pan-European group of 18th-century patrons used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. The book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in 18th-century Europe.

ISBN:

9780754666509 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0754666506 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Interior architecture Social aspects Europe History 18th century.
Architecture and society Europe History 18th century.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture Europe.
Architects and patrons Europe History 18th century.
Architecture intérieure Aspect social Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture et société Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Identité (Psychologie) en architecture Europe.
Architectes et mécènes Europe Histoire 18e siècle.
Architects and patrons.
Architecture and society.
Identity (Psychology) in architecture.
Architektur
Innenarchitektur
Repräsentation Innenarchitektur Europa Geschichte 18. Jh Kongressbericht.
Innenarchitektur Repräsentation Europa Geschichte 18. Jh Kongressbericht.
Soziale Frage.
Bauherr.
Europe.
Europa

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Baxter, Denise Amy.
Martin, Meredith (Meredith S.)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269146
Call No.: BIB 201194
Status: Available

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